1 Post-statist epistemology and the future of geographical knowledge production Forthcoming in Springer S, White, RJ and Lopes de Souza M [eds.] The Radicalisation of Pedagogy: Anarchism, Geography and the Spirit of Revolt. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Gerónimo Barrera de la Torre a and Anthony Ince b a Corresponding author Instituto de Investigaciones “Dr. José María Luis Mora”, Plaza Valentín Gómez Farías 12, San Juan Mixcoac, Distrito Federal, México. C.P. 03730 gbarreratorre@gmail.com b Kulturgeografiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet, Stockholm 106 91, Sverige. Tel. +46 8 16 20 00 / Fax +46 8 16 49 69 Anthony.ince@humangeo.su.se Abstract In this chapter, we explore the possibilities of a ‘post-statist’ epistemology in geography and its possible contributions to a radical pedagogical and methodological agenda within the discipline and social sciences more generally. Beginning with a critique of the naturalization of statist logics as indicative of a series of problematic epistemological assumptions within geography, we construct an anarchist epistemological framework for informing geographical scholarship. This framework draws principally from anarchist thinkers, but also other writers such as Pierre Clastres, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Bolívar Echeverría, offering insights into how geographers can construct new, anarchistic epistemological, methodological and pedagogical frameworks. We argue that hierarchical power relations, typified by the state, need to be recast not as the end-point of a linear process towards efficient and just social organisation but as merely the outcome of spatio-temporally situated processes. In making this epistemological shift, one can find ways of transforming the processes and relations embedded in knowledge production and dissemination. We therefore offer a number of practical methodological and pedagogical approaches that transgress statist and other authoritarian epistemologies, and outline possibilities for geographers to prefigure collaborative, non-hierarchical ways of knowing and understanding the world.